MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

Old man Ewing (Jason Robards) owns a ranch right next to the ranch of Ella (Jane Fonda). This is a source of two problems: Ewing wants to gobble up most of the land around the two ranches and also wants Ella's ranch; secondly, when Ella was too young to know better, she went to bed with the man, which, many years later, she considers to have been a grievous error on her part. A third problem arises when oil companies begin pressuring both of them to allow drilling on their land, and Ewing won't allow it -- on his or anyone else's land. Before long, war-veteran Frank (James Caan) enters Ella's life and helps her fight to save her land and her sanity, with added assistance from Dodger (Richard Farnsworth), an old local who knows the score. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Cinemascope)
• Audio: PCM Mono, 5.1
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Subtitle: French, Spanish, English
• Features:
  • • Original theatrical trailer
    • English: mono
    • French: mono
    • Spanish: mono
    • French & Spanish language subtitles

AWARDS

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

•     Nominated Best Supporting Actor - 1978 (Richard Farnsworth)

• Los Angeles Film Critics Association

•     Won Best Actress - 1978 (Jane Fonda)

• National Board of Review

•     Won Best Supporting Actor - 1978 (Richard Farnsworth)
•     Nominated Best Picture - 1978

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Director:

  Alan J. Pakula

• Producer:

  Gene Kirkwood, Dan Paulson

• Screenwriter:

  Dennis Lynton Clark

• Cinematographer:

  Gordon Willis

• Composer (Music Score):

  Michael Small

• Editor:

  Marion Rothman

• Production Designer:

  George Jenkins

• Associate Producer:

  Ronald Caan

• Executive Producer:

  Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler

• Set Designer:

  Arthur Jeph Parker

• Costume Designer:

  Luster Bayless

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  Chris Newman

• First Assistant Director:

  Paul Helmick

• Stunts:

  Billy Burton, Donna Garrett, Ted White, Danny Costa, Walter Scott, R.L. Tolbert, H.P. Evetts, James Sheppard, Sammy Thurman

• Stunts Coordinator:

  Walter Scott

• Construction Foreman:

  Bruce Wineinger

• Supervising Sound Editor:

  Kay Rose

REVIEW:

• Comes a Horseman won Richard Farnsworth his first Oscar nomination, but the veteran stunt man-turned-thespian provides only one of the fine performances in this grave, level-headed Alan J. Pakula effort. James Caan's insouciant veteran/cowboy and Jason Robards' winner-takes-all villain are equally solid. Jane Fonda, meanwhile, leverages a severe Electra complex and a lot of dusty cattle rancher costumes into a very different sort of showcase role than the one that earned her an Oscar in Pakula's masterpiece Klute. The popular director keeps the focus on his actors, but screenwriter Dennis Lynton Clark and cinematographer Gordon Willis take great pains to demonstrate both the hardships of the modern rancher and the dusky beauty that continues to draw independent-minded individuals to such a life. This is mostly a quiet film, full of pervasive, unglamorous challenges and occasional but subtle triumphs. It isn't a blockbuster and doesn't try to be, but its measured script is full of well-observed moments and ragged charm. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi